Truths in Poetry

By John Spartan

Based on the daily devotional format, Truths in Poetry is a thirty-one-day journey on the basics of being a Christian. The first five days will help you to define where you are with God. The rest of the month will help you grow to be a good child of God. At the end of the book, ten holidays reflect spiritual truths for the believer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781639030712

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Truths in Poetry

John Spartan

ISBN 978-1-63903-070-5 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63903-071-2 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by John Spartan

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Day 1

Truth

Day 2

What Is Sin?

Day 3

Sin in God's Eyes

Day 4

The Detestable Sin

Day 5

The Simple Gospel

Day 6

The Gift

Day 7

The False Assumption

Day 8

The Baffling Mystery

Day 9

God Your Friend

Day 10

The Voice

Day 11

The Family of God

Day 12

Going to Church

Day 13

The Soldier

Day 14

To Fight a War

Day 15

Go the Distance

Day 16

Love

Day 17

Joy

Day 18

Peace

Day 19

Patience

Day 20

Gentleness

Day 21

Goodness

Day 22

Faithfulness

Day 23

Meekness

Day 24

Self-Control

Day 25

Faith

Day 26

Prayer

Day 27

Hope

Day 28

The Christian Success

Day 29

The Big Question

Day 30

Shining the Light

Day 31

It's a Choice

The Holiday Poems

St. Valentine's Day

Introduction

Good Friday

Introduction

Resurrection Day

Introduction

Mother's Day

Introduction

Memorial Day

Introduction

Father's Day

Introduction

Independence Day

Introduction

Thanksgiving

Introduction

Christmas

Introduction

To the Reader

About the Author

Introduction

This book is a thirty-one-day plan to give you the fundamentals of being a Christian. The daily bread helps you learn truths about God. Rather than use stories or experiences, I have compiled a list of poems that should enlighten and enable you to learn and live for Christ. It is never about doing something for Christ. It is making decisions, behaving rightly, and trusting God throughout your life. I will start from the beginning with truth and the cross to define what a Christian is. The rest of the poems helps you in your Christian walk. The introduction will introduce the subject with verses.

At the end of the book, I have made ten poems that go along with each holiday in an American believer's life. I not only share the truth about the holiday but I also will use it to enlighten you to the truth in the Bible.

Day 1

Truth

There is a designer, who is God, who created this world. That is the truth. Everything in the Bible is true. Yet we look around at society and see them following false religions. People have tried to redefine the truth as something that you make it. Both Hinduism and Buddhism believe that you do what you feel your heart says. But the truth is defined to be absolute. Romans 1:24–25 shares how people served creation rather than the truth. They have made truth a lie. In Jeremiah 17:9, it is written that the heart will even deceive itself into thinking it is good, but it is still evil.

In today's poem, I mention the yin and yang. This lie has come from China and has infiltrated the church and is seen in movies. It is presented by a circle, half black and half white. The black section represents evil, and the white section represents good. The black area has a white dot, and the white space has a black dot. The philosophy goes that there is a little good in evil and a little evil in good. Buddhist priests will teach this philosophy to people who will listen. For example, if you killed a person in self-defense, it is good you spared your life, but you murdered an evil person.

In 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul prophesies that people within the church will follow some foolish idea rather than the truth in the last days. They will not study the truth and will believe only in their understanding.

But the truth is the Bible. Second Timothy 3:16 says that Scripture is an inspiration of God. If the Bible does come from God, and God does not lie, is it not the truth? So, then, why have I seen Christians instead believe in what they think and not what the Bible says?

Read this poem as I describe this foolishness.

The Truth

People may fool around in truth or dare

Or make light of truth for they don't care.

They think it's something that wavers in season

And never would it have any good reason.

They only think it is how they feel

And not want it to be really real.

But truth is so serious

And could make people so furious.

Truth is like a solid that never changes form

Never like liquid that can quickly conform.

It starts with God, who is the right

Backed by love and infinite might.

He is the truth that can never change

Unlike the philosophy of yin and yang.

He is the right way and the ultimate good

Detesting our sin that makes us rude.

He shows order in the laws of creation

Even made the law of degeneration.

This started with Adam's bad choice

Now everything dies without any poise.

We have an enemy who is the master of evil

And continually devastates more than the weevil.

Evil leads down to chaos and destruction,

Never wanting to do any construction.

Satan laughs at this